Associate Creative Director - Art
Location: US, NY, New York City
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Director
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Online Media
Function: Design

Company profile:
Kettle is an independent digital agency based in New York City and the Bay Area. We’re committed to making digital do more — for both people and brands — because we believe the digital world offers more than meets the eye. Every online experience has the potential to change a life, a brand, or even change the world. And we carry this philosophy into each and every product we build.

Job description:
Kettle is hiring an Associate Creative DirectorJob Location: New York, NYKettle is a growing digital agency focused on finding great people to deliver fantastic interactive products. We are a passionate, multi-disciplinary team advocating for users to the benefit of our clients. Based in Soho, we work in an open, collaborative, and creative environment. Our clients include leading brands and digital innovators such as American Express, Sesame Street, McGraw-Hill, The New Museum, YouTube, and many more. Check out our website for a selection of recent work.We are looking to hire a new Associate Creative Director with an Art Direction background. Your portfolio combines strong web/app interface design and exemplary campaign work. This position is an exciting opportunity to lead some of the most challenging projects around.Your responsibilities as Associate Creative Director include:Develop compelling concepts and on-brand design solutions—you won’t stop exploring until the challenge at hand is solved.Exceptional communication and presentation skills—you can articulate and defend design decisions both internally and to clients.Direct all phases of creative work from ideation to final builds to maintain Kettle's expectation on quality and award winning work.Assist the Creative Director in managing and inspiring the creative staff as well as being accountable for the creative deliverables.Be able to foster and develop existing and new client relationships.Stay on top of best-of-breed designs and technologies.Additionally, the appropriate candidate must:Be passionate about clean and functional design, responsive layouts, usability standards, and web technologies.Have an applicable portfolio demonstrating both on-brand campaign and UX/UI creative direction.Have 7+ years of professional digital design experience.Must have online advertising experience. On-set photography and videography creative direction preferred.Be well organized, detail oriented and a problem solver.Be positive and a team player.Have proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and work in Keynote.Have an understanding of modern HTML &amp; CSS, jQuery, illustration and video/animation.More info:Candidate must be able to work onsite in our SoHo office, and be a US citizen or have a work permit.Candidate must also understand that this is not a 9-5 job: we take a lot of pride in our work, which sometimes requires to put a bit more hours to deliver outstanding design solutions. But we make the work environment fun and enjoyable.Please make sure to include a link to your online portfolio.

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